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Re: Fwd: bit OT -- Wifi technology
From: "Bradley, Stephen W. Mr." <bradlesw () MUOHIO EDU>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:50:01 -0400
If you are a Cisco shop already have you considered their micro cell sites? I believe our networking group is researching that right now. Steve Sent from my iPad Stephen Bradley bradlesw () muohio edu On Sep 2, 2010, at 6:09 PM, "Russell Fulton" <r.fulton () AUCKLAND AC NZ> wrote:
Hi Folks this stuff has security implications but really is not primarily a security topic so please forgive me for taking liberties with the list. Currently we are a cisco shop as far as our wireless infrastructure goes -- enterprise WPA2, EAP, PEAP, authenticated via radius, but are now looking at alternatives. One thing that we are aware of is the convergence of traditional wifi and cellphone technology. It seems clear that '4G' will support some form of (more or less ?) seamless marriage of the two. This is vitally important for us because 3G bandwidth is extremely expensive here -- to the point where potentially useful mobile applications are too expensive for a large sector of our student population. Added to this is the problem of different network providers -- any deal struck with one provider will leave more than 50% of our users out in the cold. Being able to leverage our wireless network with most phones would be a big advantage. Many people already use iPhones this way but is currently not widespread enough to deliver essential services over. The other thing that we are aware of is that the Cisco gear performs well in some circumstances but sub optimally in others. We wonder if we can improve the over all performance of our wireless presence by buying AP from another provider for some niche environments (e.g. lecture theatre and other relatively open spaces) And then then there is the security aspect of mixing technologies/vendors. Are there things that we should look out for? In theory so long as we can authentication via one of radius, kerberos or AD we should be fine but is it as simple as that? So we would very much like to hear any real world experiences or of any crystal ball gazing that others have done that might help us decide where to go... Thanks, Russell
Current thread:
- Fwd: bit OT -- Wifi technology Russell Fulton (Sep 02)
- Re: Fwd: bit OT -- Wifi technology Barry Lynam (Sep 02)
- Re: Fwd: bit OT -- Wifi technology Daniel Bennett (Sep 03)
- Re: Fwd: bit OT -- Wifi technology Bradley, Stephen W. Mr. (Sep 02)
- Re: Fwd: bit OT -- Wi-Fi technology Biddle, Rob (Sep 03)
- Re: Fwd: bit OT -- Wifi technology Barry Lynam (Sep 02)